🎹 A Town With An Ocean View Piano (Simplified)
Joe Hisaishi · Intermediate ·
918 notes ·
Tempo 80 BPM ·
45,700 views ·
Update 25/12/2025
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🎭 Emotional Character
Shadowy and elusive, never quite resolving, active and densely woven throughout, holding its emotional level to the end.
Minor
Moderate tempo
Moderate dynamics
Busy texture
Wide-ranging melody
👤 Suggested For
📖 Early Learners
✋ Average Hand Size
⏰ Estimated Practice Time
3
weeks to performance-ready
Expect a few weeks of regular practice to get it up to tempo cleanly.
4h per week
18h total est.
3 hard segments
* Estimate assumes ~4h focused practice/week for an average-level student at this difficulty tier.
🎯 Difficulty Assessment
Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Moderate - requires coordination between hands
Score Breakdown
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Hand Interleaving
9/25
29% of notes interleave - moderate interleaving
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Note Density per Beat
5/30
Busiest beats: 5 notes/beat (avg 3.39) - comfortable density
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Ornaments & Grace Notes
0/20
0 ornamental notes (0%) - no significant ornamentation
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Pitch Range (per hand)
6/15
Right: C4–B6 (35 st) | Left: E2–A4 (29 st)
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Largest Interval Leap
6/10
19 st (1Oct+P5) - large leaps
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Chromatic Complexity
2/8
17% black-key notes - some accidentals
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Polyphony / Voices
2/7
~2.1 notes active per beat (max 4) - occasional two-voice texture
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Piece Length
3/5
3m 34s - medium length: sustained focus needed
🎚 Dynamics
f
Uniform f - very little dynamic contrast
Avg velocity 80/127 · Spread 0 · Range 80–80
🎹 Note Range - Piano Keyboard
Upper dot = RH (Right Hand)
Lower dot = LH (Left Hand)
White dot on black key = sharp/flat note used
📐 Note Range per Hand · Sheet Preview
🤚 Left Hand
Lowest E2
Highest A4
Span 29 st (2Oct+P4)
Notes 467
Widest leap 19 st E4→A2
🖐 Right Hand
Lowest C4
Highest B6
Span 35 st (2Oct+M7)
Notes 451
Widest leap 15 st E4→G5
🖐 Hand Span & Chord Density
Left Hand
Max chord span: 4 semitones (M3)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 47 chords
Right Hand
Max chord span: 5 semitones (P4)
0 st Octave 2 Oct
Avg chord: 2 notes · 5 chords
↪️ Scales & Thumb Crossing
Detected 2 scale/arpeggio runs requiring thumb crossing.
A few short runs — thumb technique needed but not dominant.
🖐 RH: 2 runs · longest 5 notes
🤚 LH: 0 runs · longest 3 notes
🔁 Repeating Phrases
Only 18 of 72 bars repeat — this piece is largely through-composed with mostly unique material throughout.
Repeated bar
Unique bar
🎯 Suggested Practice Passages
?Each "passage" is 2 consecutive measures (ô nhịp). The algorithm scores every passage by note density and interval leaps, then picks the 3 hardest for focused practice.
The hardest passages in this piece — spend extra time here before running the full piece.
📍 Measures 50–51
2nd hardest
📍 Measures 52–53
3rd hardest